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Taste the Fruit Wine Tradition
Cherry wine? Apple wine? Blueberry wine? You can’t find them in stores, but family-owned wineries across America make award-winning fruit wine in small batches.
Hard ciders, honey wines, and exotic wines, too – made from everything from rhubarb and starfruit to dandelions and coconuts – even huckleberries, which only grow in the wild.
Now, getting them is easy: Use our site to find the fruit wine you love – or the exotic wines you want to try – and click to order directly from the winery, meadery or cidery.
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Shop Now for Finest Fruit Wines, Exotic Wines, Honey Wines and the Fanciest Hard Ciders on the Planet:
Fruit Wines
“But year after year I come back to this place/ just to remember the taste/ of strawberry wine.”
— Deana Carter
Cherry Wines
“Oh, don’t you be like me/ drink your good sweet cherry wine/ and let that whiskey be.”
— Leadbelly
Exotics
Pumpkin, maple, chocolate-hazelnut, key lime, dandelion, rhubarb… whether bark, nut, vegetable, root, common lawn weed or rare fruit, these “exotic” wines are all handcrafted by fearless and talented artisans.
Hard Ciders
“Cider apples furnish one of the most cogent arguments to prove that Providence had the production of alcoholic liquors directly in its eye.”
— George Saintsbury
Honey Wines
“The history of the term honeymoon dates back to the Norse, who would drink a quantity of mead (honey wine) for the first month (moon) of marriage.”
— The Voice, U.K. newspaper
Desserts/Liquors
“Eau de vie is the French word meaning ‘water of life.’ They are clear, pure distillates of fermented and mashed fruit.”
— Steve McCarthy, Clear Creek Distillery, Portland, Oregon
Cherry Berry
made by: Alto Vineyards & Winery, Illinois
A 50-50 blend of cherries and raspberries makes a “berry” delightful low-alcohol dessert wine in a full-size 750ml bottle. Multiple award winner!
$19.99
Ships to: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming